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oppugn

 

oppugn ("uh-PYOON") v.

origin: from the "oppugnare", meaning "to attack".

1. To oppose, contradict, or call into question.

"But as my hope is good, so shall my prayer be, that so you may be
strengthened, that the world and Satan himself may understand and
perceive that God fights your battle. For you remember, sisters...
I admonished you that Satan could not long sleep when his
kingdom was oppugned..."

--John Knox, "Notable and Comfortable Exposition upon Matthew IV,
Concerning the Temptations of Christ in the Wilderness" (1556)